we bring an intellectual feast to a fun city, you know, las vegas so it's cool. >> what's your background? >> well, i grew up in portland, oregon, and i am a active mormon and so i went on a mission for the mormon church and graduated from byu and worked for the cia and then broke out into the financial world and since then, got married, five children, moved to the bahamas for two years, life in living color, saved enough money to move to london where we bought a flat, and been to 71 countries, just i've written ininvestment news letters. that's my primary source of income, the news letter called "forecast and strategies" that i wrote since 1980, but i have a foot in the academic world. i wrote a number of books on economics. i teach economics and business in florida, columbia university in new york, and new mercy college. that's a little summary. i should mention here at freedom fest my wife does the anthem film festival. we have a film festival here as well. we have a lot of things that we do, and we really enjoyed it. >> very quickly, what did you do for the cia? >> oh, good question.